WASHINGTON (AP) — Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a U.S. official.
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The official said Volker told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday of his decision to leave the job, following disclosures that he had connected Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family over allegedly corrupt business dealings.
Giuliani has said he was in frequent contact with Volker about his efforts. The State Department had no immediate comment on his resignation and has said only that Volker put Giuliani in touch with an aide to Ukraine’s president.
Pompeo said Thursday that as far as he knew, all State Department employees had acted appropriately in dealing with Ukraine.
Volker was brought into the Trump administration by former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to serve as envoy for Ukraine. He worked in a volunteer capacity and had retained his job as head of the John McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. Arizona State’s student newspaper was the first to report his resignation.
Volker wants to spend more time w his family. Like the previous 63 top administrators and agency heafs of Deep State Donald’s rotten regime. But nothing to worry about. Volker will testify in front of the House Impeachment Inquiry this week and explain that Trump is a deranged runaway train that will take the entire GOP into the turlet next Nov, but its OK, just Trump being Trump…
Volker came from the Jon McCain Institute which must have infuriated the President so Delusional Donald is pleased that he’s gone. He wasn’t very helpful in helping the President’s personal pro bono lawyer investigate the Democrats and may be replaced by Jeanine Piro or Alex Jones.
you are so correct…